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Department of Atomic Energy
Union Minister Dr Jitendra says, four units of 1000 MW each of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant will be completed by 2027
Union Minister of State  Science & Technology; Minister of State  Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said, at present, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Units 1&2 of 1000 MW capacity each are already in operation and the remaining four units of 1000 MW each are under construction. On their progressive completion, the full capacity of Kudankulam site of 6000 MW is expected to be reached by the year 2027.
In a statement laid on the table of the Rajya Sabha in reply to a question, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the projected installed capacity of Kudankulam site is 6000 MW, comprising of six nuclear power reactors of 1000 MW capacity each. The first two units i.e. KKNPP-1&2  are in operation and the remaining four units i.e. KKNPP-3&4  and KKNPP-5&6  are under construction.
The power generated by nuclear power plants  is allocated by the Ministry of Power  to the various beneficiary States / Union territories in the region from time to time. The state of Kerala has a firm allocation of 266 MW from KKNPP-1&2 apart from the
unallocated quota. Presently the state of Kerala has a share  of 13.48% from KKNPP-1  & 13.30% from KKNPP-2 . With regard to the allocation of power from units under construction, i.e. KKNPP-3&4  & KKNPP-5&6 ,
MoP will take a decision and communicate at an appropriate time.
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Ministry of Communications
India Post to sell National Flag through its 1.6 lakh post offices to celebrate Har Ghar Tiranga
To instill the feeling of patriotism in the hearts of people and a sense of pride for the Journey of India, Government of India under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav  introduced the Har Ghar Tiranga Campaign. The campaign was immense success in 2022 where 23 crore households hoisted the Tiranga at their homes physically and six crore people uploaded selfies on HGT Website. The Department of Posts  took this campaign to the last mile and ensured the availability of the national flag in the remotest corner of the country.
To continue this zeal and patriotism, the Government is organising the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign between 13–15 August, 2023. It has been decided to leverage the vast physical network of 1.6 lakh post offices in the country and to ensure sale of flags under the campaign through all the post offices in the country.
The sale of flags in the post offices will start soon and citizens can walk-in to their nearby post office to purchase the flag. Citizens will also be able to purchase the national flag through the ePostOffice facility  of the department.
The Post Office will also organise a number of awareness activities  to connect citizens to this program of national importance. Citizens may participate in these activities and become a part of this great initiative of New India.
Citizens can take selfie with national flag hoisted at their homes and offices and can upload on social media with the hashtag 
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Election Commission
General Election to the House of the People – 2019
Real-Time Dissemination of Counting Day Trends and Results
The Counting of Votes for General Election to the House of the People – 2019 shall be held on 23rd May, 2019. In this regard, the Commission has come up with a new IT based initiative, which will enable the system in providing real-time trends and results of the vote counting across the States/UTs. The counting trends and results will be available on the ECI Website at the URL https://results.eci.gov.in as well as on the Voter Helpline App, both iOS and Android Mobile Apps. The dissemination will start functioning from 8.00 a.m. on the Counting Day and would be continuously updated.
The Voter Helpline App can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or Apple Play Store. For the first time, the citizens can use a smart phone to know the results. They can use the available filter to find out the winning/leading or trailing candidate details, along with the Constituency-wise or State-wise results from the Voter Helpline App. The citizens can bookmark their favourite candidate and watch the real-time results, as per their convenience on the Voter Helpline App or make a wish list to track the real-time status.
The local display of the trends and results by the CEOs/ROs/DEOs will also be done through the Digital Display Panels provided by Election Commission of India.
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Ministry of Steel
Government of India taking steps to raise the level of availability of domestic coking coal for use in steel industries
India imports around 90% of metallurgical coal requirement, which was 56.05 MT in 2022-23. As the steel production rises in the country, the coal imports are likely to rise too. In this direction, the Ministry of Steel and Ministry of Coal have made concerted efforts to raise the level of availability of domestic coking coal for use in steel industries. Following actions have been taken to improve the supply of domestic coking coal:
1. To raise the availability of domestically produced coking coal to steel manufacturers, the Ministry of Coal has 16 coking coal blocks so far, out of which 4 blocks were auctioned in the year 2022-23. Out of these, JSW was allocated two coking coal blocks. JSW is planning to produce 1.54 MTPA  coking coal from the allocated blocks.
2. Bharat Coking Coal Limited  invited agencies/companies to mine coking coal from their BCCL owned abandoned/discontinued mines on a revenue sharing basis. Initially, 8 mines were identified and bids have been invited in two rounds, since May 2023. Letter Of Authorization  has been issued for 4 mines while the bids received for two mines are under finalisation. Further, two more mines have been identified for offering, under the revenue sharing mechanism. Fresh round of bidding is likely to be conducted shortly for these mines, including the remaining mines.
3. Steel Authority of India Limited  has entered into an Memorandum of understanding  with BCCL to get washed coking coal from BCCL washeries. SAIL has signed MoU for getting 1.8 MT of washed coking coal from BCCL washeries. Other than that, limited washed coking coal is also available. Presently, 4 new coking coal washeries are under construction/commissioning by BCCL.
4. BCCL and Central Coalfields Limited  have offered a linkage auction of the raw coking coal for the steel sector in June 2023. As no bids were received, the same was offered again in July 2023. Tata Steel participated in the auction and got the linkage of 50,000 tonnes of raw coking coal from mines of CCL.
5. The Ministry of Coal has also taken an initiative to bundle setting up of washeries with linkage of coking coal. It has been envisaged that the agencies including steel industries, can setup greenfield washeries or revamp old washeries of BCCL, which will be provided linkage of coking coal. A Transaction Adviser was appointed by BCCL to formulate the methodology and the revised proposal is under approval process of BCCL/CIL.
Ministry of Science & Technology
Protein found in Zebrafish can regenerate aged discs in human vertebrae
A protein found in the backbone of zebrafish that plays a positive role in disc maintenance and promotes regeneration in aged discs between vertebrae can have potential therapeutic implications to promote regeneration in degenerated human discs.
In humans, discs degenerate naturally, leading to many related health concerns, including low back, neck, and appendage pain. Currently, only symptomatic treatments for disc degeneration are available, including pain relievers or anti-inflammatories. In severe cases, disc replacement or disc fusion surgery is performed. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop a treatment either to suppress disc degeneration or to promote disc regeneration in humans. Medical examinations have given insights into the stages of degenerating human discs, but limited information is available about the cellular and molecular processes playing a role in the maintenance of the discs. Most importantly, no medical procedures or treatments have been known to suppress disc degeneration or induce disc regeneration.
A study by Agharkar Research Institute , Pune, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, discovered that a protein called Cellular communication network factor 2a  secreted from intervertebral disc cells induces disc regeneration in aged degenerated discs by promoting cell proliferation and cell survival by modulating the pathway called the FGFR1-SHH  pathway.
The study which used Zebrafish as a model organism is the first in vivo study showing that it is possible to induce disc regeneration in a degenerated disc by activating an endogenous signaling cascade. The scientists also found that the Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signaling cascade takes a positive role in disc maintenance and augmenting disc regeneration. The study published in the journal Development used genetic and biochemical approaches and is likely to help design a novel strategy to suppress disc degeneration or induce disc regeneration in degenerated human discs.
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Ministry of Coal
Coal Ministry Auctions One Mine of Odisha
Having 548 Million Ton Reserves
Ministry of Coal had launched the auctions of coal mines for commercial mining under 6th round and second attempt of 5th round on November 03, 2022. Forward auctions for these mines have been started on 27.02.2023 and on the 6th day of the e-auction, 1 coal mine was put up for auction which was MMDR coal mine. Further details of the coal mine is as under:-
- The coal mine is a fully explored coal mine;
- The total geological reserves for the coal mine is ~ 548 Million Tonnes.
- PRC for the coal mine is 6 MTPA
The results for Day 6 are as under:
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S. No.
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Name of the Mine
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State
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PRC 
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Geological Reserves 
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Closing Bid Submitted by
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Floor Price 
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Final Offer 
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1
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Burapahar
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Odisha
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6.00
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547.89
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Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd
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4.00%
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40.75%
This coal mine upon operationalization will generate Annual Revenue of ~Rs. 1,308 crores calculated at PRC of the coal mine. The mine will attract capital investment of ~Rs. 900 crores and will provide employment to ~8,112 people.
Ministry of Finance
Cabinet approves extension of ‘Pradhan MantriVayaVandanaYojana’
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval to the following for the welfare of and to enable old age income security for Senior Citizens:
 Extension of Pradhan MantriVayaVandanaYojana  up to 31st March, 2023 for further period of three years beyond 31st March, 2020.
 To allow initially an assured rate of return of 7.40 % per annum for the year 2020-21 per annum and thereafter to be reset every year.
 Annual reset of assured rate of interest with effect from April 1st of financial year in line with revised rate of returns of Senior Citizens Saving Scheme  upto a ceiling of 7.75% with fresh appraisal of the scheme on breach of this threshold at any point.
 Approval for expenditure to be incurred on account of the difference between the market rate of return generated by LIC  and the guaranteed rate of return under the scheme.
 Capping Management expenses at 0.5% p.a. of funds of the scheme for first year of scheme in respect of new policies issued and thereafter 0.3% p.a. for second year onwards for the next 9 years.
 Delegating the authority to Finance Minister to approve annual reset rate of return at the beginning of every financial year.
 All other terms and conditions of the scheme remaining the same.
The minimum investment has also been revised to Rs.1,56,658 for pension of Rs.12,000/- per annum and Rs.1,62,162/- for getting a minimum pension amount of Rs.1000/- per month under the scheme.
Financial implications:
Government's financial liability is limited to the extent of the difference between the market return generated by LIC and the guaranteed return of 7.40% per annum initially for the year 2020-21 and thereafter to be reset every year in line with SCSS. The expenses on managing the scheme, are capped at 0.5% of assets under management per annum for the first year of the scheme and 0.3% p.a. for second year onwards for the next nine years. As such the expected financial liability v/ill range from an estimated expenditure of Rs. 829crore in the financial year 2023-24 to Rs. 264crore in last FY 2032-33. The average expected financial liability for the subsidy reimbursement, calculated for annuity payment on actual basis is expected to be Rs. 614 crore per year for currency of the scheme. The actual interest-gap  would however depend upon the actual experience in terms of number of new policies issued, the quantum of investment made by subscribers, actual returns generated and the basis of annuity payment.
PMVVY is a social security scheme for senior citizens intended to give an assured minimum pension to them based on an assured return on the purchase price / subscription amount.
Vice President's Secretariat
Vice President emphasises the need educate people on ecological importance of rivers and water bodies
Urges people not to pollute water bodies
Calls for providing irrigation facilities to farmers
Vice President visits Tungabhadra Dam along with spouse, Smt. Usha Naidu
(The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu today stressed the need to educate people about the ecological importance of rivers and water bodies, and urged the people not to pollute or degrade them.
In a Facebook post, after visiting Tungabhadra dam at Hospete in Ballari district of Karnataka, the Vice President underlined the need to preserve and conserve our finite water resources for future generations. "A river is very much like a living entity and let us pledge to keep its purity and sanctity intact", he said.
Retreating the need to provide irrigation facilities to all farmers, Shri Naidu said that as a farmer's son, he understands the importance of water for agriculture.
Referring to Tungabhadra Dam and it’s natural surroundings, Shri Naidu said that he was overwhelmed by the magnificence and vastness of nature’s ‘virat swaroop’.
Underlining the significant role played by Tungabhadra Multipurpose Project in the development of the region, he said that by irrigating vast farmlands, generating power and driving tourism, it is serving the nation in multiple ways.
Recalling the history of dam, the Vice President wrote that, though, the initial idea of constructing the dam was conceived in 1860s to provide irrigation facilities to the famine-prone Rayalaseema region, it was only in 1944 that the Governments of Madras and Hyderabad arrived at a final decision to jointly implement the project. The visionary engineer, Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya played a key role in deciding the design and construction methods of the dam.
The Vice President who arrived here from Bengaluru today, was briefed on various aspects of the Tungabhadra multipurpose project. Tomorrow, he will be visiting Hampi, the UNESCO World Heritage Site which is a few kms away from the dam.
The Vice President said that Hampi and the Tungabhadra Dam should be high on the list of places of visit by students of schools and colleges. "These twin sites are must-visit destinations for anyone who wishes to experience the joys of nature," he said.
Ministry of Mines
GSI confirms an inferred resource  of 5.9 million tonne Lithium ore in Reasi District, J & K
Geological Survey of India has carried out a ‘preliminary exploration’ i.e. G3 stage mineral exploration project on Bauxite, Rare Earth Elements and Lithium in Salal-Haimna areas of Reasi District, Jammu & Kashmir during FS 2020-21 & 2021- 22 and has confirmed an inferred resource  of 5.9 million tonnes of lithium ore.
There are scattered houses in the mineralised block of Salal-Haimna, Reasi District, Jammu & Kashmir.
The processing and refining methods for lithium ore can vary depending on the type of lithium deposit, the characteristics of the ore, and the intended end-use of the lithium compounds. India is capable of developing technologies for beneficiation of lithium ore to lithium mineral concentrate. Successful experimentation has been done for extraction of lithium from mineral concentrate in laboratory scale.
The decision regarding auctioning of the Lithium mineral block in Jammu & Kashmir will be taken up by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research under Department of Atomic Energy has established 1600 tonnes  lithium resource in Marlagalla area, Mandya District, Karnataka. This is a preliminary estimate and since then, exploration inputs by AMDER are focused to convert the preliminary estimate to exploitable category and higher degree of confidence and to augment lithium resource in the adjoining extension areas. Bench scale studies have been completed on hydro- metallurgical extraction of Lithium from Spodumene mineral concentrate from the area to produce very pure Lithium Carbonate.
This information was given by Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Pralhad Joshi in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Prime Minister's Office
PM appreciates Cleanathon organised at Juhu beach in Mumbai
Sharing a tweet by Dr Jitendra Singh on cleanathon organised at Juhu beach in Mumbai, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has lauded the cause. Shri Modi has appreciated the people involved in the cleanathon and said that it is important we focus on keeping our coasts clean.
The Prime Minister tweeted;
"Commendable...I appreciate all those involved in this effort.
India is blessed with a long and beautiful coastline and it is important we focus on keeping our coasts clean."
Ministry of Railways
FESTIVAL SPECIAL TRAINS TO RUN BETWEEN SANTRAGACHI AND MGR CHENNAI CENTRAL
Kolkata, November 4, 2021
Keeping in view the extra rush of the passengers during Chhat Festival, the South Eastern Railway  authority has decided to run Special trains between Santragachhi-MGR Chennai Central-Santragachhi leaving Santragachhi on November 5, 2021  and leaving Chennai on November 3, 2021
06041 Santragachhi-MGR Chennai Central Special will leave Santragachhi at 2.55 pm and will reach MGR Chennai Central at 4.50 pm the next day. In the opposite direction, 06042 MGR Chennai Central-Santragachhi Special leaving MGR Chennai Central at 17.45 pm in the evening will reach Santragachhi at 11.45 pm at night, the next day.
The Special train will have two AC 3-Tier, nine sleeper class and seven general second class coaches and will have stoppages at Kharagpur and Balasore in SER jurisdiction.
Ministry of Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises
India Records all time high Export of Coir and Coir Products
The export, of coir and coir products from India worth Rs. 2757.90 crore for the year 2019-20, registers an all-time high record, which is around Rs. 30 crore higher than that of the last year i.e. 2018-19 which stood at Rs. 2728.04 crore. 9,88,996 MT of coir and coir products were exported during the year 2019-20 from the country as against 964046 MT exported during the preceding year. While the exports of coir pith, tufted mats, coir Geo-textiles, coir rugs and carpets, coir other sorts, coir rope and power-loom mats registered growth both in terms of quantity and value. The products like hand-loom mats, coir yarn, rubberized coir and power-loom matting showed decline in terms of quantity and increase in terms of value.
- Coir pith with export earnings of Rs. 1349.63 crore constituted 49% of the total export of coir products from the country.
- Coir fibre with an export of Rs. 498.43 crore constituted to 18% of the total exports.
- The value added items put together constituted 33% of the total exports.
- Tufted Mats topped among the value added products .
- The export of coir and coir products never showed decrease during the period, which shows there is no chance for the coir entrepreneur to worry about the business.
- The domestic market for coir and coir products also shows an increasing trend.
- Exports are made through several ports of India out of which around 99% of the Exports of Coir and Coir Products are made through Tuticorin, Cochin and Chennai Ports. The other main ports of export of coir and coir products are Vishakapattanam, Mumbai, Kolkata etc. Small quantities of exports were made through roads from Kannur, Coimbatore and Rexual.
The port-wise details of exports are as under;
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Port-wise Export 
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Sl. No.
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Port/ Place of Export
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Qty.

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Value

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1
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Tuticorin
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519144
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122910.39
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2
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Cochin
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217930
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107023.69
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3
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Chennai
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238970
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43159.93
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4
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Vishakapatanam
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11578
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1871.26
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5
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Mumbai
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1145
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596.15
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6
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Kolkata
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113
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131.89
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7
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Bangalore
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41
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58.19
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8
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Others 
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75
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38.63
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Total
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988996
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275790.13
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Ministry of Rural Development
Ministry of Rural Development issues warning regarding fake email ID of Secretary, MoRD
It has been brought to the notice of Shri Nagendra Nath Sinha, Secretary, Department of Rural Development , Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India that a false email ID secyrd.nagendranath[at]gmail[dot]com created in his name and fraudulent emails to various DoRD stakeholders have been sent.
One particular email being sent from this false ID is regarding closure of projects of a Project Implementing Agency namely; DataPro Computers Pvt. Ltd. under DeenDayal Upadhyaya – Grameen Kaushalya Yojana . This fraudulent email has been sent to various State Rural Livelihood Missions and other stakeholders in the skilling ecosystem with the false sign off in the name of Shri Nagendra Nath Sinha, Secretary, Department of Rural Development.
The Department of Rural Development has initiated an investigation in this matter. In the meanwhile it is stated that as the email ID secyrd.nagendranath[at]gmail[dot]comis a fraudulent email ID, any communication from this ID should be disregarded. Any fraudulent activity carried out by this email ID has no connection whatsoever with Shri Nagendra Nath Sinha, Secretary, Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.
It is further stated that any official communication from Department of Rural Development, Government of India is issued through official channels and from email domains such as gov.in or nic.in. Emails originating from outside official domain names of Government of India should be checked for their authenticity.